[lug] cron and date command

[David L. Anselmi]

D. Frye wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 02:36:52PM -0500, Gordon Golding wrote:
[...]
> } 0  *    *   *   *  /home/BACKUPS/Backup_to_Disk2.bsh name`date +%y%m%d` 1>/home/BACKUPS/name`date +%y%m%d`.log 2>/home/BACKUPS/name`date +%y%m%d`.err

> My recollection is that the '%' is a reserved character in the crontab
> file. This is based on a problem that I was bitten by back in 2001, and
> I don't recall where I found the information at. You *might* be able to
> use the standard backslash to escape the character and have it treated
> as a literal.

David is right (now that you mention it I got bit the same way once). 
And backslash is the way to escape a %.  crontab(5) has the details 
(it's (5), not (1)).

Dave